I am trying to write a script that will use a browser to interact with the user (I figure this is the best way to make it platform independent). Unfortunately I cannot even get up to bat. All that happens is that my HTML is written to the command line.

I am guessing that for whatever reason, HTML::Display cannot determine the default browser for the system. I am using Cygwin at the moment.

Here is my "Hello world!" code: 
#! /usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use HTML::Display;

my $browser=HTML::Display->new();
if (defined($browser)) {
        my $mypage="<html><body><h1>Hello world!</h1></body></html>";
        $browser->display(html=>$mypage);
}
else {
        print("Unable to open browser: $@\n");
}

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Can someone help me get started? TIA.

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